Living in a Virtual World: Domain Controllers and Time Synchronisation

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

The question of how to handle Domain Controllers has been around for quite some time.  The answer really depends on what product you have decided to use as your virtualisation platform.  Personally I have found both Microsoft Virtual Server and VMWare ESX pretty good solutions to my virtual requirements.  Regardless of the product ...

Expensive Hypervisors - a bad idea even if you can afford them

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Here is a great post from James O'Neill.   http://blogs.technet.com/jamesone/archive/2008/03/13/expensive-hypervisors-a-bad-idea-even-if-you-can-afford-them.asp As Microsoft get ready with Hyper-V VMware are beginingg their marketing blitz in an attempt to justify their pricing.  As James points out in his post you can manipulate figures to come to any conclusion you want ... even if its way off base.  ...